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Welcome to Clueless, our informal weekly clue setting competition.

The idea is to compose a cryptic clue to a given word or phrase.

The winner of the previous week's competition both sets the word to be clued and judges the entries for the current week.

The judge's decision is final and reasons may or may not be given at the judge's discretion. It is customary for the judge to award a virtual prize to the winner.

Multiple entries may be submitted and new competitors are particularly welcome.

Clues should be submitted by 6:00 pm BST on Wednesday, 19th of July, with the winner to be announced shortly after.

The answer to be clued is;

EDUCATION (9) - PLEASE PARSE! PRETTY PLEASE!

Have fun!

Reading something to chew over in a note I circulated (9)

CUD backwards (something to chew over) inside an anagram (circulated) of ANOTEI. Def - Reading.

Correctly noticed at French school - result! (9)

Anagrind: correctly
Fodder: noticed + au (French 'at')
Def: school result

It could be higher when auctioned off (9)

'It could be higher' def. by example, anagram of 'auctioned', indicator 'off'

Bringing up of first ever coin no-one returned (9)

"Bringing up of" - definition
"First ever" - E, "coin" - DUCAT, "no-one returned" - ION

Culture based on "Romeo, Romeo! (Wherefore art thou) Romeo?" (9)

"Culture" - definition
"Romeo" x 3 = three Rs (reading, writing and arithmetic)

Stupidly missing the point, continued a training course, perhaps (9)

Anagram of "continued a" minus "n"

Union curtailed cadet training. (9)

Anag of unio and cadet
Def and anagrind. Training

Cautioned about upbringing (9)

(I'd be very disappointed if you required a parse for that :-) )

To get information, Ant & Dec have IOU torn up (9)

"information" - definition
"torn up" - anagrind
Fodder - ANT + DEC + IOU